Got a sitecom pcmcia wireless card in my notebook. It (obviously) doesn't work out of the box. How do I get this thing up and running? I don't know where to start... iwconfig (I've installed wireless-tools) seems to pick the card up (although the leds for link and activity don't seem to do anything). This is the output:

as it seems to have reconised your card you just need to configure it
you have a lot of options...
you can:
-install wiri-radar or
-use the gentoo-way to get your card configured or
-do it manualy or
-try networkmanager(didn't work for me)
-... there are realy a lot of options

1. What is a baselayout and how do I determine which one I have.
2. I suppose I need to know the name of an accesspoint before I can configure ("any" doens't seem to work, but I know from my windows box that there aren't any in the building)
3. ifconfig eth1 up renders an error:

Code:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

4. iwlist eth1 scan seems to work but the output is: no scan results. However, there are ap's in the building, so why are there no results?
5. I added eth1 to the default runlevel. When starting up runlevel 3 tries to start eth1. This doesn't work. I get the missing file directory error and something about a firmware problem.

mabe try searching for softmac firmware...
because according to http://www.prism54.org/faq.html you need softmac firmware
so mabe you have the good firmware...so mabe:
-you have wrong proxy settings
-your ebuild doesn't work because it's a bug and so you should bugreport

It seems that an/the ndiswrapper works for this particular chip/card. I've tried it on a Xubuntu system. I still wasn't able to get on the internet, but that might be a config-problem or a signal-problem. Scanning worked, so the card seems to work.